Browsing by Author "Omotesho, K. F."
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Item Consumers’ willingness to pay for lettuce in supermarkets and specialty shops in Ilorin Metropolis, Nigeria.(University of Ilorin, Nigeria., 2016) Omotesho, O. A.; Falola, A.; Omotesho, K. F.; Abikoye, A. S.This study examines willingness to pay (WTP) for lettuce in supermarkets and specialty stores in Ilorin, Nigeria. A two-stage sampling technique was used to select 250 respondents from two supermarkets and two specialty stores in the study area. Data were collected with structured questionnaire and analyzed with descriptive statistics and Tobit regression. Results showed that 79.2% of the shoppers were willing to pay for lettuce in such shops. The mean WTP for a bundle (averaging 0.5kg) of lettuce by the respondents was N640.50, in constrast to the current price of N1000.00 per bundle in the study area. The significant variables that positively influenced the consumers’ WTP were age (p < 0.01), access to food safety information (p < 0.05), number of teenagers in the household (p < 0.05), household composition above 60 years (p < 0.01) and nutritional knowledge of food planner (p < 0.01) while importance attached to price negatively affected it (p < 0.01). Therefore any food security policy involving sales of lettuce in supermarkets and specialty stores should be made in a way that the price should not be greater than N640.50 per bundle. Also, policies aimed at improving access to food safety and nutritional knowledge of household’s food planner should be put in place by the government and other food security agencies.Item Crop farmers’ willingness to pay for agricultural extension services in Kwara State, Nigeria.(Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nasarawa State., 2015) Omotesho, K. F.; Ogunlade, I.; Muhammad-Lawal, A.; Falola, A.Item Perceived causes of livestock involvement in road accident: Threat to livestock production among women in Oyo State(University of Ilorin, Nigeria, 2013-12-16) Adefalu, Lawal; Usman, B; Omotesho, K. F.; Aderinoye-Abdulwahab, Sidiqat; Olateju, O. A.This study examines women farmers’ perception on livestock involvement in road accident in Surulere LGA of Oyo State, Nigeria. Surulere LGA was purposively selected because most of its communities are located very close to the highways. Multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select 120 respondents for the study while interview schedule was used to elicit information from respondents. Descriptive statistics (frequency counts, percentages, Mean scores and ranking) and inferential statistics (Chi-square) were used to analyze the data. Findings revealed that the mean age of respondents was 46.5 years with a typical rural woman having an average monthly income of N12, 250.00; 73.3% had one form of education or the other; 68.3% were full-time crop farmers while 16.7%, 11.7% and 3.3% combined trading, civil-service, and artisan work with livestock farming. Majority (77.5%) of the respondents had goats, while 52.5%, 29.2% and 33.3% kept poultry, sheep and duck respectively as income generating enterprises. Chi-square analysis showed a significant relationship between respondents’ perception on causes of livestock involvement in road accident and some of their selected socio-economic characteristics (age= 0.00, education= 0.00 and experience= 0.00) of the. The study concludes that road accident constitutes a major threat to free-range livestock production in the study area. It is therefore recommended that road signs and speed breakers be constructed on highways that transverse the rural areas.Item Social Network and Innovation Dissemination among Farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria(Faculty of Agriculture, 2016-06-01) AYINDE, Opeyemi Eyitayo; Aina, V. I; Omotesho, K. F.; Jesudun, O. MAgricultural innovation has tremendous potentials to improve the welfare of the rural poor. Yet, many new technologies that seem profitable in demonstration plots are not widely adopted due to inadequate social groups linking the farmers to the researchers which result to non-effective information dissemination. There is no adequate link between the farmers and the social groups which are very pivotal to the adoption of innovation and it eventual usage. This study therefore looked at social network and innovation dissemination among farmers in Kwara state Nigeria. This research specifically examined the impact of social network on innovation dissemination among farmers, and how social network affect the decision making of farmers. A two stage approach was used in data selection, the first stage was purposive and second was random selection technique to collect data from 125 respondents in the study area. Descriptive statistic, Social Network Analysis (SNA), and Qap correlation were the tools employed. The result of the analysis showed that social network enhances innovation dissemination, farmers who are members of social group adopt innovation faster. There was no correlation between individual farmers’ choices and social group choices, when farmers are member of a social group, their decision tend to be different from when they were not and must is a need for adequate information link between researchers and the farmers. Female farmers should be encouraged to join social group as measure to enhance innovation adoption.